A Windy Day

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Inchindown

Discussion Starter · Nov 29, 2013

I came across this truck in a ditch near my house this afternoon. I stopped and checked on the driver, and he was unhurt and was waiting for a recovery truck to turn up.
It turned out he had missed his turning on the A9 and had turned up this single track road to try to find a place to turn around. He had managed to turn around, and was on his way back to the A9, (about 100 yards ahead of the truck), when a gust of wind forced his nearside wheels off the edge of the tarmac and then he toppled into the ditch.

Must have been quite a scary experience for the driver.

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wilma08

· #2 · Nov 29, 2013

Inchindown said:
I came across this truck in a ditch near my house this afternoon. I stopped and checked on the driver, and he was unhurt and was waiting for a recovery truck to turn up.
It turned out he had missed his turning on the A9 and had turned up this single track road to try to find a place to turn around. He had managed to turn around, and was on his way back to the A9, (about 100 yards ahead of the truck), when a gust of wind forced his nearside wheels off the edge of the tarmac and then he toppled into the ditch.

Must have been quite a scary experience for the driver.

Is the Tarmac ripped up across from the truck at least the guy is ok must have been hard for him to climb up and down from his cabin

Hope you went and got him a hot drink

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Inchindown

Discussion Starter · #3 · Nov 29, 2013

wilma08 said:
Is the Tarmac ripped up across from the truck at least the guy is ok must have been hard for him to climb up and down from his cabin

Hope you went and got him a hot drink

The stuff on the right is just mud churned up by cars having to go on the grass to get bye the truck.

When I knocked on the truck door the driver already had a hot drink and a sandwich.

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